NOC vs. TRI, EMR, WM, PWR, TXT, AIR, RGR, POWWP, HEI-A, and LUNRW
Should you be buying Northrop Grumman stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Northrop Grumman include Thomson Reuters (TRI), Emerson Electric (EMR), Waste Management (WM), Quanta Services (PWR), Textron (TXT), AAR (AIR), Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. (RGR), AMMO (POWWP), HEICO (HEI-A), and Intuitive Machines (LUNRW).
Northrop Grumman (NYSE:NOC) and Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI) are both large-cap aerospace companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and risk.
Northrop Grumman pays an annual dividend of $7.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Thomson Reuters pays an annual dividend of $2.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Northrop Grumman pays out 52.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Thomson Reuters pays out 37.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Thomson Reuters has a net margin of 39.67% compared to Northrop Grumman's net margin of 5.38%. Northrop Grumman's return on equity of 24.09% beat Thomson Reuters' return on equity.
83.4% of Northrop Grumman shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 17.3% of Thomson Reuters shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Northrop Grumman shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Northrop Grumman received 171 more outperform votes than Thomson Reuters when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.33% of users gave Northrop Grumman an outperform vote while only 49.02% of users gave Thomson Reuters an outperform vote.
Northrop Grumman presently has a consensus price target of $509.38, suggesting a potential upside of 7.30%. Thomson Reuters has a consensus price target of $157.67, suggesting a potential downside of 3.24%. Given Northrop Grumman's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Northrop Grumman is more favorable than Thomson Reuters.
Northrop Grumman has a beta of 0.34, indicating that its share price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Thomson Reuters has a beta of 0.65, indicating that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Thomson Reuters has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Northrop Grumman. Thomson Reuters is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Northrop Grumman, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Northrop Grumman had 15 more articles in the media than Thomson Reuters. MarketBeat recorded 33 mentions for Northrop Grumman and 18 mentions for Thomson Reuters. Northrop Grumman's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Thomson Reuters' score of 0.75 indicating that Northrop Grumman is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Northrop Grumman beats Thomson Reuters on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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